Hate Is The Essence Of Socialism

When will socialist Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) be held accountable by the media for his own revolutionary and hateful rhetoric?

“Not Donald Trump, not anyone else will be successful in dividing us based on race or our country of origin,” says Sanders. Meredith Warren, a Republican political analyst and consultant, counters: “But Sanders should take a long look in the mirror. Both he and many of his Democratic cohort, including Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, are fiercely pushing a campaign message specifically intended to divide America along different lines—economic ones.”

Warren, a graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication, where she majored in broadcast journalism, should be congratulated for drawing attention to the media’s double standard.

On one occasion, during an appearance on Iowa public television, Sanders was asked about promoting class warfare. He turned the question around and insisted that class warfare was being waged by the rich against the middle class and the poor.

The problem for Sanders is that his political philosophy is ultimately based on the notion of the elimination of the bourgeoisie—the middle-class owners of property—as set forth in the Manifesto of the Communist Party, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. “This person must indeed, be swept out of the way, and made impossible,” it says. This is the theory of class warfare.

In his famous “Time for Choosing” speech in 1964, Ronald Reagan captured the essence and attraction of Marxism, saying, “We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one.”

American economist Henry Hazlitt said it a different way: “The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others.”

That is the essence of the Sanders campaign strategy.

In his book, Socialism in America, John L. Bowman writes about envy being one of the driving forces behind socialism: “…the simple desire to want what another has.” He added, “After all the moralizing about justice, freedom from oppression, disparity of wealth, and obligation to help others according to their needs, the truth may be that socialists are just plain envious of those with money.”

Bowman says one reason for socialist envy is that “socialists often lack the ability to make money.” A good example was Marx, the father of communism, who is usually described in glowing terms as a philosopher, journalist, historian, and economist. But “he never earned a living wage and was largely supported by Engels,” notes the entry at biography.com. Paul Johnson’s book Intellectuals,notes Bowman, said that Marx was “unwilling to work at a job, borrowed money to live, and was incompetent with personal finances, all of which led to lifelong money problems and his subsequent hatred of money, money lenders, usury, and capitalists.” Bowman adds, “During the last part of his life, Marx and his family lived in a two-room apartment on Dean Street, near Soho in London in dire poverty.”

Sanders has escaped such a fate because he has been a career politician. We’ve noted that James O’Brien, a political consultant and former publisher of Campaigns & Elections magazine, calculates that Sanders, who has been a mayor, member of Congress and a U.S. senator, has achieved the financial status of a millionaire. He concludes that Sanders and his wife have a net worth in the range of $1.2 to $1.5 million, not the $700,000 or less that is usually reported by the media.

Sanders apparently once performed manual labor on an Israeli commune or kibbutz dedicated to Joseph Stalin. The Times of Israel reported, “Leaving the cabin he shared with a few other American college student volunteers, Sanders would have a quick bite of bread before heading out to the orchard. After 2 1/2 hours of work, he and the other 20 or so volunteers would sit down for a traditional 30-minute Israeli breakfast of tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, butter and hard-boiled eggs…The kibbutz belonged to the Israeli political party Mapam, which in the 1950s had been a communist, Soviet-affiliated faction. Kibbutz members had admired Joseph Stalin until his death, and they would celebrate May Day with red flags. They spoke of controlling the means of production, taking from each according to his abilities and giving to each according to his needs.”

Is this where and how Sanders first became a socialist? Sanders won’t talk about it. The media have asked for details, but he and his campaign won’t respond. APreports, “Sanders won’t identify the Israeli kibbutz where he briefly volunteered in the 1960s. When reporters found the kibbutz, Sha’ar Ha’amakim in northern Israel, he wouldn’t comment.”

The conclusion is inescapable: Sanders is a hard-core Marxist who preaches class warfare. He calls himself a democratic socialist, but he wants to avoid any mention of communism.

Donald J. Trump has called him a communist, a charge Sanders denies. “He calls me a communist. That’s a lie,” Sanders thunders.

Yet, as we noted in our coverage of one of the Democratic debates, Sanders did not disavow his previous comments in support of the communist dictatorship in Cuba.

Hatred is “the heart of Marxism,” Henry Hazlett said. “This is its animating force. You can throw away the dialectical materialism, the Hegelian framework, the technical jargon, the ‘scientific’ analysis, and millions of pretentious words, and you still have the core: the implacable hatred and envy that are the raison d’être for all the rest.”

Meantime, Communist China has more billionaires than the United States, according to the Hurun Global Rich List 2016. It finds that there are 568 Chinese billionaires, compared to 535 in the U.S. Beijing has replaced New York as the billionaire capital of the world.

Still, the Constitution of the Communist Party of China declares, “The Communist Party of China is the vanguard both of the Chinese working class and of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. It is the core of leadership for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and represents the development trend of China’s advanced productive forces, the orientation of China’s advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people. The realization of communism is the highest ideal and ultimate goal of the Party.”

Of course, as we’ve argued, the communists use capitalism to create the wealth they couldn’t create through socialism. Such a development is why many conservatives still love the old song by The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” with the lyrics: “Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.” Except that the new communist boss is actually worse than the old boss.

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This article is ridiculous. The essence of socialism is not hate, it is envy. It is fascism that is the essence of hate as you can see from Trump and his supporters. Second of all, Bernie is not a socialist, he is a social democrat. He has never shown any sign of having contempt for democracy, or wanting to confiscate wealth, or wanting to creates communions, or anything of the sort that relates to hard core socialism or class warfare. Social democracy respects the free market and understands that it is important for a functional economy, it merely understands that for a prosperous developed nation you need to have a welfare state to support the weak which can be funded for by a fair increase of taxes that puts the higher earning people and the lower earning people on a more equal ground (right now a CEO earns 70x times more than your average middle class 9to5 person). Social democracy has produced the most successful countries in human history, why would you not want to replicate their efforts so that the US could catch up with those countries and then become great again? It seems the author of this article never really bothered to check up where Bernie actually is on the issues aside from reading that he claims to be a democratic socialist (which he actually isn’t, it’s a different thing from social Democracy which is what actually defines where Bernie is on the the issues).

Sanders believes in the redistribution of wealth. He wants to take more from the haves and give to the have nots. He wants to raise the taxes on citizens who currently pay around 90% of all income taxes. Americans making $50k and up pay 95% of all income taxes in this country. Not everyone making $250k and up is some rich overpaid CEO or evil trillionaire.. Bernie is absolutely a socialist. He cannot show his entire hand at the moment because he will be exposed for the quack he is. Bernie Sanders is a lot more socialist then Trump is fascist.

Can you show me any example of Sanders supporting any direct (socialist) redistribution of wealth in his speeches or his policies? He supports reducing the income inequality, which is a good thing as it means you have a growing middle class (see GINI coefficient). The 90% tax thing is a debunked hoax claimed by people trying to discredit him. He supports no such measure. Right now there is a cap on how much taxes someone has to pay when they reach a certain level of income, he will merely remove that cap. Even for the richest of people it will never come close to 90%. I would personally never support a candidate proposing an absurd tax like that.

Looking at a history of the socialist/communist idea and the completely stagnant socialist nations throughout belies your premise. You must know nothing of history or the actual past. The Nazi party was a socialist ideology as has been all who adhere to these utopian ideals. Think! Without the Judeo-Christian ideals the only way to attempt to establish the Utopia is to eliminate the “undesireables” and those who will not conform and then, as history proves, human nature will prevail and the attempt will fail.

First of all, The Nazi party was economically centrist. Second of all, Bernie does not support communism, and if you had checked his policies and compared it with communism you would know this yourself. His policies match that of the social democratic nations of Scandinavia which are today the most prosperous countries in the world today.

Read up on communism, social democracy, and Bernie’s own positions on the issues.